Gulf widens between Japan, China; President Hu drew a harder line last week over visits to Japan's controversial war shrine.(WORLD)

From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: April 11, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Robert Marquand Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

BEIJING -- A year after rocks and bottles peppered Japanese businesses and diplomatic offices in the most public anti-Japanese outbursts in urban China for decades, relations between the two largest Asian powers have, if anything, frozen further.

In a little-noticed development, Chinese leader Hu Jintao appears for the first time to be setting a clear precondition for dialogue between Japan...

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